pls a pic of the inside.

First of all this crap doesn't look like a helicopter. Its like a plane with propeller at d top, so op should look for another name for it. Maybe aerocopter
And lastly if it dose not fly its not what it is but a prototype.

Kudos to the kid for building a prototype UFO.

Good but state or federal should assist him further.

The other day one built a cupboard said it's a car with wood,today again this one has built a cow image and said it's a copter, if that thing dares to leave that spot it will cause an accident. The guy should concentrate on being a panel beater or something.

Another idle joke once more. If you want to understand why Nigerians don't know nada, come to find out their discussions on nairaland. Maybe this latest clown sculptor will get a scholarship from an equally dumb governor or something. I won't explain; it's just too far to begin. My fellow engineers may have a clue

So where did he fly the helicopter to? This is laughable...be educated, until it flies and lands it is not an helicopter...until it can move and stop, it is not an automobile...the body work is a good start my boy,but then make the engine and make it fly,for now go back to the drawing board,do the schematics,avionics,and aeronautical design then call me...

Wat is dis? Rubbishkopter

The likes of tailor, welder, bricklayers, barber, etc will appreciate things like this. No engineering student or engineers and few with sound minds will appreciate this non sense. I belong to such few.

This is nothing but rubbish. Such could not have been on front page, who ever puts it there belong to the first group.

CUM4WHAT:

lalasticlala all I see is d guy using
the only ceiling fan in his house as d heliflopter propeller

lol

Una no dey shame? The OP wey call this thing helicopter na only God go judge am

Princek12:
Before you enter this helicopter to fly you somewhere, do the following:

1) bid you family members farewell and say your last prayers;
2) ask God to forgive you all of your sins;
3) Write your will and get life insurance for your loved ones;
4) Plan your funeral ahead and make provision for payment of your funeral expenses; and
5) prepare to meet your maker.

Fly keh?? You mean before u enter it for u to be pushed around the compound.
Hahhaahahaahahaahaahaa

I don't blame the OP. I blame the MOD.

kosokoadeyemi:
Good but state or federal should assist him further.

How na? Have they finished assisting other panel beaters we have around?

popesam1:
Our government should let us make use of this brain our youth were taking to european countries.

Kudos to you man, may God help u

Are you for real mehn?!

The mod and the op are the same.

jude33084:

Are you for real mehn?!

Someone has to encourage him to do more

Nice , This guy should perform the test flight on his helicopter , I will pay for the fuel

Mortiple:
How is this a Helicopter? Enough of these jokes!

UNTIL IT FLIES, he has really done nothing special and should not be eulogized.

If I may ask, where are all the 'ingenious' builders that were celebrated on Nairaland in the past?

I think this guy is the only one still making it real:

the LAUTECH graduate building flying
engines from locally-sourced materials in Nigeria
February 25, 2016 by Victor Ekwealor
Rushing to the office through the hot Lagos sun in
this heatwave, I didn’t feel a single burn. My mind
was filled with “ifs” and more “whys”. A million
questions crammed my brain as it worked hard to
tackle the task at hand — I had to interview a
young Nigerian drone maker doing extraordinary
things with flying engines
“Good afternoon sir,” Olaoluwa Ayoola greets with
an endearing, unassuming politeness as he alights
from the bus, even though I had insisted he
addressed me by my first name.
A few months back, when I heard about a Nigerian
student that made a drone and was resident in
Nigeria, I was both ecstatic about the prospect of
meeting him and sad the Nigerian media didn’t
give people like him any enough coverage.
In the spirit of dronemanship, I give you 23 year-
old Ayoola Olaoluwa, a Computer Science graduate
of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
(LAUTECH) who has built a working camera drone
and a Flying Car from scratch.
Background
lagos-traffic
“The traffic in Lagos is horrible and makes the
state appear bigger than it actually is. Getting from
one place to another is war!”
I remember this young man was from Ogbomosho
in Oyo State where traffic isn’t a major headache.
He is the second son in a family of four and by his
manners, was from a well mannered parentage.
I wondered aloud what attracted a Computer
Scientist to aeronautics,
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (106 of 239)
“I initially wanted to study aeronautical
engineering, but it wasn’t available in any Nigerian
university at the time, so I settled for Computer
Science which is somehow a branch of
aeronautics,” he replied with head bowed setting
up his machines to be photographed in preparation
for our interview.
Ayoola hopes to acquire a Masters Degree in
aeronautics someday to develop his passion for
making flying engines.
How the journey started
IMG_20131116_175742_0
“I have been making things for as long as I
remember”
From building a shiny hyper realistic aeroplane
when he was 13 years old to making rotor
powered cars that operated on finger batteries,
Ayoola had always been creating machines with a
leaning towards air engines.
“Everybody was awed by the plane I built”, he
laughs in recollection, !but it was not working. It
couldn’t fly or even move and they did not even
know.”
“Making things has always been something I did
as a pastime,” he adds, “the way other people
engage themselves in their spare time, I want to
create things. It is more like a hobby for me”
Introducing the drones
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (113 of 239)
When I asked him to tell me about his inventions,
this young man was quick to point out that they
were not his inventions.
“Drones are not new, and I did not invent them,
you can call them innovations, I might agree to
that but they are more like tweaked prototypes of
already existing technology,” he replied in
correction of my intentional slip.
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (35 of 239)
The drone is a battery powered quadcopter with
four rotors attached to the wings and controlled by
a joystick that has been tweaked to serve as
controls for both the Flying Car and the drone.
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (99 of 239)
“I had to buy the batteries online not because there
was no local substitute, but they were all heavy
and not powerful enough. Even these one still
require constant charging after say nearly 30
minutes of continuous use”
I noticed he had to change the batteries multiple
times during our test flight.
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (43 of 239)
“The controller was originally built for a toy, but I
reconfigured the frequency to control both the
Flying Car and the Drone”
The controller was the most fascinating part of the
engineering to me. I couldn’t wrap my mind
around completely altering an already built
joystick. The more I asked, the more he explained
and the more confused I got. I just left it, but it is
mind-blowing nevertheless.
“The drone goes over 300 meters in the sky,”
Ayoola tells me, “the time it got missing during the
NYSC test flight, I took it too high”
The Flying Car
It can drive like a normal car and take off without
having to taxi on any runway.
“A flaw in the design of the drone actually inspired
this Flying Car,” remarks Ayoola. “In other words,
it started out as a mistake and at the end of the
day, I really did like what came out of it. ”
According to Ayoola, what started out as a flaw
turned into the best hybrids there is. Imagine
having a car that can fly and is not anyway as
expensive as any known flying machine. It could
completely phase out traffic in congested cities and
change the way ambulance services operate.
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (160 of 239)
The Flying Car can also go above 30o meters in
the air as its flying technology is similar to the
drone. It is just a hybrid of a functional motor
engine that moves the tires and a flying engine.
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (36 of 239)
Having built all these from scratch without formal
training of any sorts, I beg to disagree with the
“tweaked prototypes” label. This young man
struggling against the odds to do the seemingly
impossible considering the dispensation in Nigeria
today is a working prototype of innovative
awesomeness himself. I stand to be corrected.
Challenges
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (196 of 239)
The greatest challenge for the young inventor at
the moment is lack of technical know-how. Being a
computer science graduate and an aeronautics buff
hasn’t exactly made the process seamless for him.
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (205 of 239)
“Most of the things I know, I learnt myself. Reading
up online, trying and failing till something is
achieved. I wish there was an educational
structure for people passionate about innovative
pursuits to gain hands-on knowledge in those
areas.”
Without further probing, we all know most of these
facilities that have been set down for purely
technical education are not functional and the
operational ones are limited in their reach.
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (167 of 239)
Ayoola feels Nigeria is too dependent on the
western world for every bit of technological exploit
when there is a lot to look inwards to.
Another challenge for him was sourcing materials
to assemble these little engines. The first drone he
ever made was an aluminium scarps contraption
that was too heavy to fly properly.
IMG_20140308_162651_0
“With time, I got to figure out that the lighter the
material, the easier it is for the craft to stay longer
in the air and be easily manoeuvred.”
And the search for a lightweight material finally led
to a Styrofoam body that was, in an ironic twist, so
light it fell on most landing attempts or turning for
the Flying Car. Says Ayoola:
“One time, I was asked to demonstrate how high
the drone could go and I went all in. The drone
went so high into the sky that I lost sight of it and
had to build another prototype.”
Ayoola Olaolu Drone (58 of 239)
“The white colour of the Styrofoam against the
white clouds is a camouflage that would never fail
to confuse anybody any day,”
The problem of a good body was one that 3D
printing would solve effectively without any
qualms. But 3D Printing when pesin never chop?
Really?
IMG-20150210-WA000
“My NYSC was in Egbedore Local Government Area
of Osun state from October 2014 to November
2015 and during that period, I used the drone as
my project of sorts in camp and it attracted a lot of
attention. The Director General of NYSC and the
Deputy Governor of Osun State also came to see
the drone in action.
And according to Ayoola, through that period until
now, he has written to every relevant government
agency, parastatal and research body, yet no reply.
“They always say they would get back to me, but
they never do.”, says Ayoola.
Innovation culture
innovation
There are a million innovators like Ayoola in
Nigeria today who have the gift, passion and drive
to revamp the Nigerian tech space from a hardware
angle. Creating practical solutions that would make
everyday life more enjoyable and also putting
Nigeria on the map of global technological
advancement.
But young people like this need massive support
from the government, companies, corporate bodies
and even individuals. Technology seems to be the
roadmap to Nigeria’s new glory, so let us all
support innovation wherever it rears it’s beautiful
head. Be it in the form of an Ayoola or somebody
else. Support innovation to grow Naija.


https://www.nairaland.com/2963797/meet-lautech-graduate-building-flying#43515773

Im really suprised many of us are here celebrating this 21st century midiocrity, and some are even talking about effort, whatever effort you put up to achieve an incredulous crap like this is an absolute waste of precious time and thats just one among the reasons we are still backward

ExAngel007:
Facebook user, Owopetu Abiola, has shared photos of an helicopter built by an unidentified man in Oyo state.


He posted the photos on his page with the caption: ‘ ‘This Helicopter is a handiwork of a very gentle man in a little village near Oyo town.

The copter can move from place to place but can’t fly yet. Please like this picture to show some love to the creative mind.”


See the photos below, with Abiola posing next to it:


[img]http://i.onthe.io/vllkyt6ihj946sotm.7cc3b7a9.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i.onthe.io/vllkyt49aqrh3stak.441a6040.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i.onthe.io/vllkyt1tdhh3kb2lvg.f80e4e59.jpg[/img]

Creativity sure abounds in Nigeria!


One day, naija go build TITANIC

https://www.naij.com/755553-nigerian-man-builds-helicopter-oyo-photos.html

Yoruba Helicopter....

some people are foolish, their forefather cannot even build/made ordinary broom not to talk of theirself building a local fan still they will be condeming an expert/talented people that are using their brain to construct or made good things locally. Later this people will be complaining of rising in dollar. since they cannot appreciate locally made things foolish people

Naso Oyibo take start. Oyo state to Saudi Arabia in 30Mins.

Mortiple:
How is this a Helicopter? Enough of these jokes!

UNTIL IT FLIES, he has really done nothing special and should not be eulogized.

If I may ask, where are all the 'ingenious' builders that were celebrated on Nairaland in the past?

ta! hm dey 4 ur body.smh

That is a statue of an HELECOPTER and not the real helecopter that can fly

I can't believe we are celebrating this level of mediocrity in this age and time. Smh.

Helicopter with wheels.....smh Combination of Helicopter and Aeroplane... OP, I think Aero-Copter whould be better name Looks too heavy to move sef All I see is the work of a welder and a painter #lobatan

Mortiple:
How is this a Helicopter? Enough of these jokes!

UNTIL IT FLIES, he has really done nothing special and should not be eulogized.

If I may ask, where are all the 'ingenious' builders that were celebrated on Nairaland in the past?

Rome was not built in a day.

1. Here is the picture of the first airplane.


2. Here is the picture of the first car.
[img]http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/es/in/es_in_elwood_1_e.jpg[/img]

3. Here is a picture of the first mobile phone.
[img]http://starwinar.files./2010/02/martincooper1_wideweb__470x3620.jpg[/img]

It's like that for every other technology. We must start from somewhere.

It's not going to fly.
Its body is too heavy for the tiny rotors to carry.
The rotors are not aerodynamically aligned.

ExAngel007:
Facebook user, Owopetu Abiola, has shared photos of an helicopter built by an unidentified man in Oyo state.


He posted the photos on his page with the caption: ‘ ‘This Helicopter is a handiwork of a very gentle man in a little village near Oyo town.

The copter can move from place to place but can’t fly yet. Please like this picture to show some love to the creative mind.”


See the photos below, with Abiola posing next to it:


[img]http://i.onthe.io/vllkyt6ihj946sotm.7cc3b7a9.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i.onthe.io/vllkyt49aqrh3stak.441a6040.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i.onthe.io/vllkyt1tdhh3kb2lvg.f80e4e59.jpg[/img]

Creativity sure abounds in Nigeria!


One day, naija go build TITANIC

https://www.naij.com/755553-nigerian-man-builds-helicopter-oyo-photos.html

We keep deceiving ourselves in this country...
the other day, the Minister of Science and tech, left his office and pressing matters to celebrate 2 lazy guys with 30$ drones claiming to be inventors.

I see a giant wheelbarrow with ceiling fan on top

The " helicopter ".....I believe I can fly.

Nice one at least he will be counted as one of the. People to own helicopter abi na pj in his community keep it up oyo is always ahead

una no go kill person for this nairaland
carry on boy the lord is your strength ;